Harness and Section forms
Fields — Adding a Select control
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As of V7.1, the Select control is deprecated, but supported. The Select control no longer appears in the Basic control group. For new development, use the Dropdown control (pxDropdown), which replaces the Select in the Basic control group. See Harness and Section forms — Adding a Dropdown control.
As a best practice, upgrade Select controls to Dropdown controls. If a section contains Select, DynamicSelect, or another control for which there is an improved alternative, a warning displays, along with an Update Controls button. Click Update Controls to automatically update deprecated controls in the section. Automatic update is not available for all controls; see Upgrading deprecated and outdated controls on the PDN.
A cell in a layout can present the value of a property, as display-only or as an input field. Follow these instructions to control the presentation of a property value in a Select box.
Don't confuse this Select control — which supports the run-time presentation of a fixed list of choices, such as produced in the Table Type area of a property — with the Dynamic Select control, where the choices are determined at runtime by running an activity. See Harness and Section forms — Adding a Dynamic Select control.
Click the down-arrow (
) at the right end of the Basic control group (
) and select the Select control (
). Drag the control to the cell or header that is to contain the property value. When the pointer changes shape to indicate that a single cell is selected, release the mouse button to drop the control.
If the cell is not empty, the dropped control replaces the current contents of the cell. Click the magnifying glass (
)to display the Cell Properties panel.
Click () to open the Cell Properties panel. Complete the top fields that appear.
If the panel is pinned (
), the wireframe presentation on the rule form changes immediately to reflect of your inputs. If the panel is not pinned (
), click Apply to apply your inputs.
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Alternatively, you can drag a property name from the lists of properties visible in the Application Explorer. Typically, this works for ( You can reference properties on any page identified on the Pages & Classes tab, using the normal notation pagename.propertyname for pages other than the page corresponding to the Applies To class of the rule. If this field is in a cell of a section that includes parameter declarations on the Parameters tab, you can enter the notation param.NAME here, to use a parameter value for the field, where NAME identifies a string parameter. Make sure that the NAME parameter is declared on the Parameters tab, and that your application provides a non-blank value for the parameter value in all possible situations where the section appears. See Sections — Completing the Parameter tab. |
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Click OK to save parameter values. |
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Optional. Leave blank if no dynamic form actions to other parts of the form are to occur based on user updates or values for this field. To establish a dynamic form action, click the magnifying glass icon ( Click the help icon ( Client event support is not available for harnesses, sections, or flow actions that use directives. |
Complete the General tab.
The General tab for a Select control is identical to the General tab for a Text Input control. See Adding a Text Input control — Complete the Cell Properties Panel — General tab.
Complete the Advanced tab.
The Advanced tab for a Select control is identical to the Advanced tab for a Text Input control. See Adding a Text Input control — Complete the Cell Properties Panel — Advanced tab.
Use these Windows operations to speed development:
Select or type a property reference that identifies a single text value. 
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)to supply parameter values for this control:
SHIFT key, select the cell, drag and drop it in another cell, in the same one layout or another layout.